Kappa Alpha Psi

Founded: Indiana University Bloomington, 1911
Colony at Baker: March 8, 2008
Colors: Krimson and kream
Flower: Red karnation
Symbol: Diamond
Philanthropy: St. Jude’s Research Hospital
Nickname: Kapas, NUPEs
Motto: Achievement in every field of human endeavor
Values: God, achievement, scholarship and family

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Kappa Alpha Psi was founded on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana on January 5, 1911. Early in this century, African American students were actively dissuaded from attending college. Formidable obstacles were erected to prevent the few who were enrolled from assimilating into co-curricular campus life. This ostracism characterized Indiana University in 1911, thus causing Elder Watson Diggs, Byron K. Armstrong, John Milton Lee, Guy Levis Grant, Ezra D. Alexander, Herny T. Asher, Marcus P. Blakemore, Paul W. Caine, Edward G. Irvin and George W. Edmonds to form Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.

Fashioning achievement as its purpose, Kappa Alpha Psi began uniting college men of culture, patriotism and honor in the bond of fraternity. Kappa Alpha Psi, a college fraternity, now composed of functioning undergraduate and alumni chapters on major college campuses and in cities throughout the country, is the crystallization of a dream. It is the beautiful realization of a vision shared by late revered founder, Elder Waston Diggs, The Dreamer.

Baker University is part of the Rho chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi. Originally chartered on November 5, 1921, at Washburn College (now Washburn University), Baker University was added to the charter after a resolution by the Province Polemarch during the Spring 2009 Middle Western Province Council.